Caching video cards

[Floyd of the Jungle]

Hey , newbie here , not sure where to post this.

I was talking to this tech guy and he said I could "cache" my video card and get more RAM out of it. I have 1gb RAM. Just wondering do you recommend it?

I was going to buy a new card anyways, just curious, sounded interesting.

Thanks.

 

[Sc4freak]

Cache? I think you mean AGP Aperture. It is set in your BIOS.

 

[ironique]

AGP Aperture affects performance slightly, nothing beats having RAM locally on the video card. Go ahead and buy a new card, AGP aperture wont give you the performance benefits of a new better performing card.

 

[Solutions]

Could he have been talking about the VGA BIOS being cached/shadowed? I think you will have a slightly decreased boot-time if you have your VGA BIOS shadowed cached but I doubt it would do anything to help video performance. If anything I would imagine that it would be decreased.

 

[WA261]

Originally posted by: Solutions
Could he have been talking about the VGA BIOS being cached/shadowed? I think you will have a slightly decreased boot-time if you have your VGA BIOS shadowed cached but I doubt it would do anything to help video performance. If anything I would imagine that it would be decreased.

That is what I was thinking. It does not help performance, you should actually turn it off if you are oc'ing.

 

[Floyd of the Jungle]

thanks guys!!

great info! yeah I was going with a new card for sure.. the idea sounded interesting to me , being able to overclock everything from processors to RAM.

 

[DaNorthface]

are you sure you even need more ram for your video card? from my experience and the games i play, 32 mb video cards are enough.. ie cs, starcraft.. i play doom 3 with my 32 mb ram card

 

[WA261]

IF you want all the eyecandy you want more

 

[RobsTV]

The only thing I can figure he was refering to would be onboard video.
You can adjust this on many systems, which would give you more video ram for those games that require it. If default was 16 meg, raising it to 32 or 64 meg would be needed for some games.